FIELD AND CROP LABOR ON GEORGIA FARMS 23 
Table 27. — Cultivating sweet potatoes 
Method, implement, and crew 
Width 
of 
row 
Number 
of 
furrows 
Number 
of 
reports 
Average 
acreage 
per day 
Feet 
4 
3 
29 
11 
9 
1.31 
1.59 
3.33 
2 
3H 
2 
31 
3.61 
4 
2 
11 
4.00 
} 3H 
1 
19 
6.89 
4 
3K 
1 
2 
11 
12 
7.82 
3.42 
Acreage reported 
most 
frequently 
Hoe (1 man) 
Do 
Side (scooter or scrape, 1 man, 1 mule) 
Do 
Do 
Cultivate middles (shovel cultivator, 1 man 
1 mule.) 
Do 
Do... 
1 (16 reports). 
1 (7 reports). 
3 (5 reports). 
3 (11 reports). 
4 (10 reports). 
4 (4 reports). 
6 (8 reports). 
8 (6 reports). 
8 (6 reports) . 
3 (6 reports). 
Table 28. — Turning sweet-potato vines 
(1 man) 
Width 
of 
row 
Number 
of 
reports 
Average 
acreage 
per day 
Acreage reported 
most 
frequently 
Feet 
3 
3H 
9 
29 
1.44 
1.98 
1 (4 reports) . 
/1/4 (7 reports). 
\2 (7 reports). 
SUGARCANE 
Sugarcane in all of the Southern States, with the exception of 
the sugar area of Louisiana and a small area in Florida, is grown for 
sirup. As the cane is grown in small patches, the different operations 
performed in growing the crop are few T in number compared with 
those practiced w T hen it is grown for sugar. The operations and re- 
quirements as given here are not to be considered as indicative of the 
work necessary to produce cane for sugar. 
As the number of reports on this crop is rather small it is not pos- 
sible to give details for all operations. For planting, canes from the 
previous year's crop are used. The first operation in planting is to 
take out these canes from the bed in which they have been kept 
over winter. The canes are shucked by removing the old leaves 
and are then thrown in piles. From the piles they are hauled to the 
field. The canes are usually 3 or 4 feet in length and are cut into 
three sections with a cane knife before being dropped into the row. 
(Fig. 11.) Cane is also growm from the stubble of the plant cane 
from the preceding year; thus two crops are harvested from the same 
land from one planting. As this practice saves bedding cane for 
all of the following year's crop, as well as planting, it is an advantage- 
ous saving of labor and expense of seed cane each year. A crop of 
cane grown in this manner is designated as stubble cane or ratoon. 
Table 29 shows the rate of planting when done by one man and two 
mules. This operation shows perhaps better than any other the 
wide difference oetween methods used in growing cane on the small 
farm and that grown on the cane plantation. The operator on the 
former does all the work, whereas on the latter the .planting crew 
may number as high as 70 men, women, and children. 
After the canes are dropped in the row, it is necessary to cover 
them. This work is done oy using a 1-mule turnplow and throw- 
